Parliament

This is an image of Parliament taken from Westminster Abbey in London. I was trying out a few different tricks on this image to see if they worked. The Smart Sharpen Filter ws used to sharpen the image (Amount 155%, Radius 8.1, Reduce Noise 33%, Remove Motion Blur at 53 degrees, Shadows Fade Amount 16%, Tonal Width 27%, Radius 7, Highlights Fade Amount 9%, Tonal Width 49% and Radius 8 px). This is from a video by Deke McCClelland (a Photoshop Guru from Photoshop World) called Sharpening Details – Compensating for Camera Shake. I could actually see a difference using these settings. Next I followed Denny Tang’s Tone and Color Chart for Photoshop video – this worked very nicely on this image. A couple Spot Light layers were used in different colors set to Overlay blend mode to add some focus. A new layer was set to Saturation blend mode and with a bright colored brush, the gold areas were painted – the layer opacity was set back to 87%. Nik Viveza 2 was used to even out the clouds a little. Finished up creating a vignette effect using Matt Kloskowski’s technique. (See my How to Create a Subtle Vignette blog.) Love the gold in this image……Digital Lady Syd